Shooter (2016) s03e10 Episode Script

1 BOB LEE: Previously on "Shooter" Our next justice of the Supreme Court, Ray Brooks.
Does Brooks have the votes he needs to get confirmed? We stop that, we stop the confirmation hearing altogether.
You guys are talking about blackmailing a Supreme Court nominee.
The poison didn't enter Sam's bloodstream, but he took a turn for the worse.
You still wanna help me with the eulogy? Can you handle it? I'm dealing with this my way.
You don't even finish anything around here for your family.
You can't even buy paint for your daughter's room.
Maybe it's time to make a change.
- [SOBBING.]
- [HOLLERS.]
[GRUNTING.]
[HOLLERS IN PAIN.]
Got this from Bob Lee.
That's a whole lot of Semtex.
Clearly, they're planning something.
Jesus, Bob Lee.
Evac routes are changed and reencrypted every day.
Yeah, well, - this thing decrypts it.
- So it has evacuation routes? NADINE: For every VIP in D.
C.
JACK: I spoke with Russo.
He said you're off the kill list if you bring him the card.
He'll even let you back in the program.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
- CARLITA: Where are we going? - JACK: You wanted to see Ruo.
- I'm taking you to him.
- BOB LEE: All right, well, I'll get on a plane as soon as they'll let me.
I'll be home soon.
Don't.
Where's Harris? NADINE: I don't know.
He hasn't answered his phone for hours.
You mean this phone? [TENSE MUSIC.]
[SAFE BEEPING.]
- The card's gone.
- Give you one guess who took it.
Carlita's probably halfway to Atlas by now.
I knew we shouldn't have trusted her - or Harris, for that matter.
- Wait, hang on.
We don't know that either one of them is to blame.
Carlita's wanted the card from day one, and Harris is MIA without his phone.
- You do the math.
- Don't you ever stop assuming - the worst in people? - BOB LEE: Guys, guys, shut up for a second.
[DINGING.]
You hear that? [DINGING.]
[LOUD BANG, GROANING.]
You got a key for this? [MAN GROANING.]
Harris? - HARRIS: Nadine? - [GASPS.]
[BEEPING CONTINUES.]
- HARRIS: [GROANS.]
- See? - Told you he wasn't in on it.
- [GROANS, COUGHS.]
- Are you okay? - Yeah, I think so.
[GRUNTS.]
What is that beeping? It's a military-grade GPS tracker.
They call it a dagger.
The question is, what the hell's it tracking? After all this time, Russo still doesn't trust you enough to give you the campus location? - It's you he doesn't trust.
- CARLITA: [LAUGHS.]
I'm getting a lot of that lately.
I suppose you don't trust me, either.
I have the decrypter.
Nothing else concerns me.
[TRACKER BEEPING.]
It doesn't make sense.
HARRIS: How bad is it? BOB LEE: Well, the tracker's headed here.
Right in the middle of a nuclear waste dump.
- Nothing else around for miles.
- NADINE: I still think if Carlita was trying to screw us, she'd just disappear.
She wouldn't leave us bread crumbs.
- She would if it was a trap.
- ISAAC: Could be a trap, could be a creative way to set a meeting.
- Oh, so now you trust her? - Either way, I can almost guarantee that place ain't filled with nuclear waste.
I'm gonna go find out.
Whoa, whoa.
You're hurt.
Go home, be with your family.
We got this.
I can't go home.
- Not until this is finished.
- You think following Carlita will lead to answers about your dad? I need to know who took the shot that killed him.
ISAAC: This isn't about your father anymore.
We're talking about an imminent attack on American soil.
Two birds, one bullet.
BOB LEE: All right, so Isaac and I will follow the tracker.
You guys stay here and work on getting to Brooks.
More than happy to sit this one out.
We can go through the intel Margo sent.
Look for proof that Brooks' ties to Atlas still run deep.
You two stay safe.
[TENSE MUSIC.]
Whatever you're planning don't.
No good will come of it.
Because a mission clouded by emotion is a mission failed? [CHUCKLES.]
Welcome home.
[SINISTER MUSIC.]
[GRUNTS.]
Agent Jack Payne overseeing disclosure number one with Recruit Carlita Cruise.
"Antisocial behavior, impertinent "with violent tendencies.
Not fit for duty.
" The FBI rejected you.
They didn't see your potential.
Where they see weakness, we see strength.
You can be one of us, Recruit, but you must submit.
Any confirmed kills? Michael Gowdy.
He was my mom's boyfriend.
Why? They fought.
He drank.
He liked to hit her.
And then one day, I came home, and he was he was doing something worse.
I shoved the Taser in his chest, and I didn't let go until his heart stopped beating.
This is Agent August Russo overseeing disclosure number 89 with Agent Carlita Cruise.
[TENSE MUSIC.]
After Hayes' death, I discovered myself on the kill list.
I used my status as a target to track and infiltrate the group.
Memphis was able to unlock the decrypter.
She's smart, driven, but she struggles to accept there is no black and white in this world.
Only gray.
Swagger is skilled but is hampered by his sense of duty, which leads him to take unnecessary risk, putting himself and others in danger.
Johnson is consumed by guilt over his wife's death.
He uses violence to try to escape those feelings.
And what do they know of the plan? They've surmised the targets could be Senate holdouts to Brooks' confirmation.
On the surface, they're cohesive, but there are divisions and conflicting agendas.
And Swagger has never forgiven Johnson for his betrayal I believe we can turn them against each other.
And I made sure they came looking for me.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
[DEVICE BEEPING.]
[SCOFFS.]
You know the South fired the first shot in the Civil War? - Fort Sumter.
- Yup.
Think you're fighting for one thing, turns out to be another.
Am I supposed to be reading between the lines here? I'm just saying.
People should leave the past in the past.
You can't change it, can't erase it.
So I should just forget about the fact that Atlas murdered my father? - Like you did with Lin? - It's not the same.
Lin's death was my fault.
Your father's murder's not on you.
[DEVICE BEEPING.]
All right, we're close.
Then it looks like we're gonna have to walk a ways on foot.
[BIRDS CHIRPING.]
[GRUNTS.]
You don't think you're gonna be making head shots with that shoulder? Name your target.
Okay, fallen tree, one click from the ridge.
Center mass, Gunny.
No fancy shit.
[SIGHS.]
[GUNSHOT.]
Wow.
Can't believe I just watched you miss.
If 8113 could see you now.
[LAUGHS.]
All right, I didn't miss.
- I grazed it.
- Whatever.
Just don't slow me down.
[SIGHS.]
[CLEARS THROAT.]
Don't be too hard on yourself.
Carlita's highly trained.
Could have happened to any one of us.
You know how she got to me, Nadine? She listened.
She asked me how I was doing.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
You know what? This is taking too long.
We need to go back to plan "A.
" Get to Brooks directly, use the affidavit as leverage - to make him step down.
- We run into the same problem.
Between SCOTUS police, Secret Service, Atlas, guy's better protected than the president.
Unless you have a secret army I don't know about.
[TENSE MUSIC.]
Yeah, an army of Ben Franklins.
His public appearance schedule.
Brooks is the keynote speaker at a fundraiser for wounded vets, that's ironic.
I think it's time we put that Atlas money toward a good cause.
[PEOPLE CHATTERING.]
[SOFT PIANO MUSIC PLAYING.]
You know, Sam would have been so touched by your having everyone over.
Well, we're really the only family he has.
Had.
[SIGHS.]
You're still waiting for him.
No, I'm not.
It's not that easy, okay? You love him, and and it's hard, but you did the right thing, Jules.
Can I put out the cookies now? Yeah, that's a great idea.
Will you make some space on the table, though, sweetie? - Yeah.
- Okay.
JULIE: You know, the thing is, when I think about myself and my marriage it's hard.
And then I think about Mary, and it's easy.
I have to keep her safe and do what's best for her.
And right now, she's safest here, at home, without Bob Lee.
[TENSE MUSIC.]
Shit.
Tracker lost signal.
Check the sat phone.
[BIRDS CHIRPING.]
They must be blocking it somehow.
Where the hell is she leading us? Guess everybody hit the road when they heard a nuclear waste dump was moving in next door.
ISAAC: Or they heard Bob the Nailer was on his way.
You're funny.
Still nothing.
Same here.
Good place for an ambush.
- Don't tell me you're scared.
- I ain't scared.
I'm just wondering why they aren't ambushing.
Isaac! [ARROWS WHIZZING.]
[GRUNTS.]
Shit.
They know we're here now.
Laser-guided arrows.
Don't slow you down, huh? This is high-tech shit.
Means we're getting close.
You got a plan for when we get to wherever we're headed? Stay breathing.
Wanna flesh that out some? [SINISTER MUSIC.]
BOB LEE: Contact! [RAPID GUNFIRE.]
[GRUNTS.]
[GRUNTS.]
Fall back! - ISAAC: You got your ambush.
- BOB LEE: No shit.
Shit! What the hell, man? When's the last time you saw a group of mercs huddled up during a mission? Stupid is as stupid does.
Hold your fire.
Something's off.
Why would they thin their ranks? They had the advantage.
They they could have boxed us in.
They just gave it up? I don't know, go ask him.
All right, I will.
Cover me.
I'm dry.
[HOLLERS.]
Where's Carlita? - Where is she? - [PANTING.]
[BOTH GRUNTING.]
BOB LEE: Hey, hey! [GUNSHOTS.]
What the hell? They're blanks.
I told you something was off, man.
- This was an exercise.
- So they're all recruits.
Yeah, man.
This isn't an abandoned town.
They built it for their rookies.
That's where Carlita was leading us an Atlas training camp.
[DEVICE CHIRPING, WHIRRING.]
[TENSE MUSIC.]
CARLITA: One kick to the back of the neck and you'd be dea You shouldn't leave yourself so exposed, Recruit.
- What the hell are you doing? - Foraging.
Even Gandhi could only go 21 days without food.
Yeah, well, I didn't join up for passive resistance.
I came to crack skulls.
[LAUGHS.]
Some people play checkers.
Others play chess.
You're not the only one with a library card here.
I guarantee my time beats yours.
You assume the objective of the mission is speed.
What if it's something different? Survival reconnaissance.
Maybe it's to watch us.
Whatever it is, I'm pretty sure it's not for us to know.
Fall back, Recruit.
You know we're supposed to travel alone.
But it is for us to know.
If they wanted robots, they would build them.
- They want soldiers.
- No.
Soldiers serve.
They want true believers, agents who will die for their missions.
And that's you? Yes.
[ARROW THWACKS.]
- [HOLLERS.]
- Shit.
Shit! No! No, no, no, you idiot! [WHIMPERING.]
- Stay still.
- [GASPING.]
All right.
[SCREAMS.]
Go.
Go! The card has been verified, as well as the intel from your disclosure.
You've done well for the mission.
Thank you, sir.
Finish it.
[TENSE MUSIC.]
[BUZZER SOUNDING.]
He still favors you.
He favors the mission above all.
[GRUNTING.]
- Weakness doesn't become you.
- It wasn't his fault.
- I was trying - I wasn't talking about him.
Infirmary, then disclosure, now.
See, we complete our missions as directed, Recruit.
You must submit.
No one will help you and you will help no one.
I understand.
[CHUCKLES.]
No, you don't.
But you will.
[BUZZER SOUNDING.]
RUSSO: This better be important, Recruit.
- What is it? - We've got two intruders inside the perimeter.
They've been ID'd as Bob Lee Swagger and Isaac Johnson.
I wouldn't come back empty-handed.
Well done, my dear.
Wait here.
[BUZZER SOUNDING.]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC.]
[DISTANT CONVERSATION.]
[TIRES SCREECHING.]
MAN: Stop! Bob Lee Swagger and Isaac Johnson, you're trespassing.
Drop your weapons.
- More blanks? - I don't know, man.
If they know who we are, they know why we're here.
Then why haven't they done any [GRUNTS.]
- [DART WHIZZING.]
- [GRUNTS.]
RAY: Sorry, my assistant must have mixed up the time.
NADINE: No, you're right on schedule.
We think it's very important to support our troops.
HARRIS: So much so that we bought up all the tickets.
NADINE: We were hoping to speak with you about your time in Vietnam.
Excuse me, Cambodia.
Or was it Laos? They're clear.
RAY: Give us the room.
Now.
MARY: Daddy? Daddy? Mary? MARY: So many people came today, Mom.
JULIE: Well, your Uncle Sam was well-loved.
Let me out of here! [MUFFLED.]
Let me out of here! [GRUNTING.]
Let me out of here, you asshole! MARY: Why wasn't Daddy here? He loved Sam the most.
JULIE: You're right, he did.
Daddy's still on his mission, honey, but what's most important is that you and I are here together.
Thank you for helping me clean up, sweetheart.
MARY: I wanna make everything perfect for when Daddy gets home.
Stay away from my family! I was young.
Hopped up on go-pills and hormones.
I didn't think twice about the dope.
Help my country kill Charlie, that sounded right to me.
I'll never forgive myself for some of the things I did over there.
But I've spent every second of my life since trying to make up for it.
NADINE: If that's true, then you need to step down immediately.
Because of this? Atlas? Look, I heard that Phoenix had evolved, but I swear to you, I haven't had a thing to do with them since the war.
If I were a pawn, I'd know it.
NADINE: Doesn't matter what you know.
We know that Atlas wants you on the court, and they're gonna take innocent lives to make that happen.
My whole life has been building to this appointment.
I won't give it all up on the word of a stranger.
- I can't.
- Then we'll have no choice but to leak Earl Swagger's affidavit to the confirmation committee.
I'm sorry, Your Honor.
Your candidacy is over either way.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
[BUZZER SOUNDING.]
Do you know the most important trait of a successful recruit? The ability to completely surrender - to the mission at hand.
- Yes, sir.
Is that a polygraph, sir? It's incredibly difficult.
There can be many questions and feelings.
But a mission clouded by emotion is a mission failed.
You lied in your first disclosure.
No, sir, I - [ELECTRICAL ZAPPING.]
- [GROANING.]
You left out the part where after you saved your mother's life, she kicked you out of the house isn't that right? - No.
- Chose him over you.
- Again.
- [SCREAMING.]
[ELECTRICITY ZAPPING.]
How does it feel? Watching her in pain.
The door's unlocked, by the way, so you can go to her at any time.
You know what? Here.
Go ahead, save her.
Shoot the man who is causing her pain.
But your mission is to continue.
Oh, and, um choose carefully, Recruit.
[LAUGHS.]
I mean you're bright, but you and I both know you ain't gonna rise up in this place until you prove yourself.
To him.
[SINISTER MUSIC.]
RUSSO: Attachments made your mother weak, make you weak.
Not anymore.
No one will save you.
You will save no one.
Again.
Again! [WHISPERING.]
Don't.
- [ELECTRICITY ZAPPING.]
- [GROANING.]
[LAUGHING.]
"Mama Tomato and her little cherry tomatoes settled in for the night.
" The end.
- One more.
- No, that was one more.
I love you.
Can you pass me Teddy, please? Who? This old Teddy? [RADIO FEEDBACK WHINING.]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC.]
MARY: What's wrong, Mom? Sweetie, did anybody hold Teddy today at the party? No, why? Um well, he has a little hole in him.
So let me sew him up tonight, okay? Can you sleep with another one? I choose Larry the Llama.
Perfect choice.
- Sweet dreams.
- Mwah.
- I love you, Mama.
- I love you too, sweetie.
Night.
[BUZZER SOUNDING.]
What did you do to my family, you son of a bitch? Calm down, Mr.
Swagger.
Your family is fine.
What you heard was merely intel.
Here at Atlas, we research our projects, plan our missions carefully.
You should try it sometime.
Now, have a seat.
I'll stand.
[GUN COCKS.]
Have a seat.
[SINISTER MUSIC.]
[GASPS.]
Your country needs you, Bob Lee.
RUSSO: For someone so concerned about his family, you certainly spend a lot of time away from them.
You really are your father's son.
I recruited him in Vietnam.
You want a prize? You're confused.
It's you who wants something from me.
Answers about who killed your father.
I can tell you for a price.
What's that? Nothing out of the ordinary for you.
I need you to kill someone.
Before you get all noble, take the unusual step of thinking before you act.
I've been listening to your wife for a while now.
She's in real pain.
Do you remember when that started? The day Isaac Johnson drove down your driveway.
You really think you're gonna get to me like that? Solotov, then.
He killed Donny, Rodriguez, Zehnder, Dobbs, Ali.
When Isaac chose to bury that report, he put personal ambition above duty and a target on the chest of every man in the 8113.
Isaac tarnished your name.
Put your child in danger.
Wreaked havoc on your marriage.
Let your brothers die.
You can't trust a rabid dog, son.
You have to put it down.
Go ahead.
For your family.
For your brothers.
For your father.
[GUNSHOTS.]
[LAUGHING.]
If it ain't loaded it ain't lethal, right? [DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
Isaac! Recruits! ADAM: In Missouri.
It's called Five Mile! It's called Five Mile! [SCREAMING.]
Hey, Julie, I wasn't sure if you wanted red or [TENSE MUSIC.]
Thanks.
No, that that wine will be awesome.
Do you wanna get some wine glasses? [MUSIC PLAYING OVER RADIO.]
MAN: I'm dazed and in a haze Trying to make things good A man is afraid, torn between the two - Are those listening devices? - Yes.
We're not safe here anymore.
You don't go into the maze to look for the mouse.
You set out the cheese wait for it to come to you.
[TENSE MUSIC.]
If the Swagger men are one thing, it's predictable.
Heroism is their weakness, and Bob Lee won't leave here without Isaac Johnson.
And that will be the end of all the little mice in the maze.
[BUZZER SOUNDING.]
Go.
Before he comes back.
Come with me.
Forget the mission.
I'd wish you luck, but I wouldn't mean it.
Same here.
RUSSO: Isaac Johnson.
[DOOR CLOSES.]
Did you know Hayes had his eye on you even before Mexico? The man had his vices, but he could spot natural talent.
- Didn't do him any good.
- No.
But he was right about you.
- You're a killer.
- And you are? I'm the guy who knows you threw Lee out that window and sliced Gold's throat clean through.
They deserved it.
And Susan Fenn? Your point? You haven't stopped punching clocks since your wife died.
Hasn't it felt good? Honest, even? Not all of us are meant to be heroes, Isaac.
You don't know me.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
Give me one reason why I shouldn't kill you right now.
Isaac.
- Where is he? - With Russo, getting his mind warped.
Russo likes to toy with his prey before he eats it.
And it's your job to set up the hunt? Hardly.
I came here to take out the top of the food chain.
All I needed was a good distraction.
Bullshit.
You've been playing Isaac - and Nadine all along.
- No, I have not.
I needed to buy time.
Only real ammo in this whole place is locked up in Russo's office.
Is that where you got the fireworks too? [SCOFFS.]
Please.
That's a sparkler compared to what I have planned.
I set this up as a contingency a long time ago.
Well, great.
You got a bullet, but we still need a gun.
- [KEYPAD BEEPING.]
- Russo will take care of that.
Yeah, but how are we gonna get to him? He's got bootlickers at every door on the way to Isaac.
[LOUD CLANG.]
I know a way.
But whatever happens, I pull the trigger.
[DEVICE BEEPING.]
What did Lin ask you the night before she died? [SPEAKING MANDARIN.]
You promised her it would.
Don't you think it's time you keep that promise, Isaac? [LOUD BANG.]
- Come here.
- Wait a min BOB LEE: Blanks again.
Cover the door.
Isaac, you good? - Now give me the bullet.
- Give me the gun.
Not until I get the answers I want.
This is what you want.
Two floors down, door marked "Black Room.
" Trust me.
- Where's the card? - CARLITA: It's gone.
- ISAAC: You kidding me? - CARLITA: Big picture, Isaac.
There's a yellow hard drive down there with all Atlas' plans, not just the one that concerns the card.
CARLITA: Go.
You got ten minutes.
Scream and you're dead.
I did everything you asked of me, and you put me on that list anyway.
My dear Carlita.
Still so emotional.
You won't do this [GUNSHOT.]
[DEVICE BEEPING.]
ISAAC: The hell is all this? Must be Atlas operations HQ.
Where they keep the files on all their missions and operatives.
Looks like it goes all the way back to the '70s.
So it did start in Vietnam.
- Phoenix.
- My dad.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC.]
ISAAC: This is that drive Carlita was talking about.
BOB LEE: Got it.
My dad's file.
Jesus, man, it's all here.
Mission intel, dates, locations.
WOMAN: Operations.
Please state your phone identification.
RAY: Ray Brooks.
Operation Windmill.
WOMAN: Confirmed.
Mission complete? RAY: No.
Target in sights, but there's someone else here.
A kid in the back seat of the police car.
Abort or proceed? WOMAN: Your call, Agent.
[GRUNTS.]
[GUNSHOT ECHOES.]
[ALARM BLARING.]
They must have found Russo's body.
- Yeah, we gotta go, now.
- We gotta get that drive.
No, man, there's no time.
[DEVICE BEEPING.]
[ENGINE TURNS OVER.]
[TIRES SQUEALING.]
[PANTING.]
[BIRDS CHIRPING.]
Hope Carlita made it out okay.
She knew what she was doing.
That psycho didn't get in your head too bad, did he? Nah.
You? I'm good.
I think he might be right, though.
Once we finish this thing we should leave all of our old shit in the past.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
Copy that.
Wait.
[TENSE MUSIC.]
All right I think I have everything.
Uh, your stuff's in the car, right? - Yep, I'm all set.
- Why can't I know - where we're going? - Because the point of a surprise is that it's a surprise.
You know what? Actually let's tell her where we're going.
We are going on an adventure to Yosemite.
- Yosemite? - JULIE: Yeah! It's totally off the grid.
We're gonna camp.
There'll be tents.
It's gonna be super fun.
And then Daddy will meet us? Yes, and then Dad'll meet us.
It's a long drive, though, so will you go grab another book or two from your room? - Mm-hmm! - Yeah? [SOMBER MUSIC.]
[KEYPAD BEEPING.]
Julie.
Give me your cell phone.
Come on.
Mary, you almost ready, honey? - MARY: Yeah, one second! - Gotta hit the road, Jack.
Mary.
Come on, baby, let's go.
MARY: Coming! Okay.
[SIGHS.]
All right.
- MARY: Let's go.
- Are there horses there? - Yes.
- And butterflies and bunnies? - Everything you can dream of.
- Tons of nature.
MARY: Last one to the car is a rotten egg! ANNE: Oh, I'll catch you! - MARY: [LAUGHING.]
- Mom, you're the rotten egg! I am, I'm the rotten egg.
Still nothing on Brooks.
He needs to step down.
Harris? Hey, I got it.
I figured out why Atlas needs Brooks - on the court so fast.
- "Anhur Dynamics"? That was Lon Scott's company.
It was a front for Atlas.
- What's the case? - Uh, complicated.
But it all hinges on a document request for discovery.
Uh, Anhur claimed a national security exemption.
- Okay, so? - So, once the court hears arguments, they will rule on whether or not a government contractor can claim that.
And if Anhur loses, all their documents go public, which opens the door for Atlas' past.
Money, missions, everything.
Their secrets brought into the light.
- Jesus.
- Yeah.
So I-I talked to my friend from law school, uh, Van Tassell.
He clerks for one of the justices.
He said right now, they're split 4-4.
Atlas is trying to tip the balance.
This isn't over.
[ENGINE RUMBLING.]
[BRAKES SQUEAKING.]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC.]
[CELL PHONE RINGS.]
- He's on.
- Uh, I got it.
- [DOOR CLOSES.]
- BOB LEE: Yo.
Hey, uh, you're just in time.
Brooks is about to make a statement.
You okay? Where's Isaac? He's babysitting.
I'll explain later.
Turn it up.
Like many soldiers, I did things in Vietnam I'm not proud of.
Despite that, I'm addressing these issues here today because I've been the victim of blackmail.
These culprits tried to use unsubstantiated allegations of my past in Vietnam to force me to step down.
[CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING.]
But their only source is nothing but a troubled man done in by the war.
I will not let these criminals obstruct the will of the president or the American people.
I stand here before you today to tell you that these allegations are false.
I look forward to clearing my good name at the Senate confirmation.
- [SCOFFS.]
- [CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING.]
He has to be Atlas.
We don't know that for sure, Nadine, but what we do know is He killed my father.
- Are you sure? - Yeah.
What are you gonna do? I'm gonna kill him.